Posted on 07/30/2016 12:37:20 PM PDT by EveningStar
The conflict between religious freedom and gay rights has a new battleground — California's religious colleges and universities.
A bill moving through the Legislare would remove a longstanding exemption from anti-discrimination laws for religious institutions, potentially exposing the schools to civil rights lawsuits from students and employees.
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Yeah, but you’ve also got Bloomberg. And you actually elected Hillary Clinton to the Senate. So you’re running neck-and-neck with California for sheer looniness.
I think lotsa hidden Trump voters in NYS.
On the other hand, the states have amended the Constitution to expressly protect free speech and freedom of religious expression as evidenced by the 1st Amendment (1A). So misguided, low-information pro-LGBT activist officials in California and other states are using politically correct, constitutionally non-enumerated LGBT “rights” to trump enumerated, 1A-protected freedoms.
The major constitutional problem with doing so, however, is that the states expressly prohibited themselves from doing such things when they ratified the 14th Amendment (14A, ratified under questionable circumstances.)
14th Amendment, Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
The bill proposed by pro-LGBT activist lawmakers in California would unthinkingly violate Section 1 of the 14th Amendment imo.
Also note that when the Founding States drafted the following constitutional clause, they prohibited the states from establishing protected / privileged classes.
Article I, Section 10, Clause 1: No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility [emphases added].
California’s proposed pro-LGBT bill concerning religious schools would also effectively violate the constitutional clause prohibiting protected classes imo.
Californicators believe that adults do not have the right to stand between sodomites and your kids.
Counseling a minor to sway them against homosexuality is now prohibited there. why is “questioning” always assumed to mean “must be gay”? why can only homos “counsel” them to join the team? It used to be criminal and “corrupting a minor” to engage in aberrant behavior.
Bill Would Enable Homoerotic Discrimination Against Religious Schools (California)
There: I fixed it.
The major reason that CA is worse than NY is that the Dems completely control (over 2/3) both houses of the state legislature. They can pass ANYTHING they want. And of course, CA then has a Dem governor to sign the bill. ALL of the other statewide offices are also held by Dems, so they will not interfere. The Hispanic Dem state Senator (Lara) who introduced this bill is an open homosexual. Expect more and worse to come out of CA in the future.
The Left is relentlessly insidious and subversive: It always seeks to co-opt the language so as to further a communistic agenda.
The truth is that “discrimination” is protected by the Constitution: freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of association all have, implicitly or explicitly, discrimination as an adjunct.
The Left has made that very word figuratively radioactive, when in fact it must not be so regarded if we are to retain any liberty.
The Left also seeks to obfuscate - if not eliminate - any distinction between the public and private sectors.
The Constitution was written to restrain the Federal government, not us!
It is one thing to legislate no discrimination in Federal job positions; it is entirely another to extrapolate that unConstitutionally to all private sector spheres.
Private religious schools have every right to discriminate under this Constitutional Republic. Unfortunately, the media have propagandized and generalized the issue and the word to the point that most conservatives do not question the Left’s presuppositions in these attacks on liberty. They cede ground without a fight.
Nota bene: This evil Federal government does nothing against, say the homoerotic saloon in Southern California that openly proclaimed it would discriminate against Republicans by denying them service; it also does nothing against any Muslim mosque or school in the land that violates the rights of so-called infidels.
This is a culture war - contrary to Peter Thiel’s glib lie - against Western Civilization and its foundation, Biblical Christianity.
I respectfully disagree. You are much too kind. There is nothing unthinking about the violation. It is quite deliberate.
Under the protection of the 9th Circus, California can do anything it wants. Getting to the Supreme Ct would take years.
Although I’m inclined to think that they have never studied the Constitution, you could be right.
Can we replace LGBT with HHC - Homosexual Horny Confused? The LG is homo, period. I tend to think youre born that way and people have been that way since the dawn of man. If your Bi then youre just plain horny. Youll rub one out with anyone convenient regardless what they have between their legs. If youre T trans then youre confused. You need help. Thereapy or medication. Maybe an extended time alone in the wilderness or on a dude ranch or sewing circle. I dont know but something is very wrong with you if youre a T.
“Big Brother”
Does this apply to Muslim religious schools?
Oppression is coming. And Republican leaders do nothing.
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